I am so slow at updating,g but here is the second chapter. One reason that this took so Incredibly long is that I was typing this on my computer upstairs, and then I was gonna, put it on a diskette and then do the transfer to ff.net with the computer that can actually get hooked to the internet (well duh, I would have to do that anyways now wouldn't I?) But something happened and I lost the whole chapter so I had to type it all again. This chapter succeeds only in explaining how Spike got back to the Bebop. Thanks to Ms. Busy Body for her review. Also thanks to the Basset Hound that lives down the street form my Grammy. I would like to apologize the italics got messed up in my last chapter, so the thoughts of people ended up looking like normal sentences. And I meant Tharsis City, not Orphis City.

Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop.

Flashbacks are indicated by a line___ _ Thoughts are in italics "Spoken words, obviously." Are in parentheses



Chapter Two: Daily Constitutional



Ed sat busily typing at her Tomato, reminiscing about all the fun she had had at the spaceport on Mars last week. Since that little incident she hadn't been allowed to go anywhere. Since Big Shot had been cancelled Ed also spent a lot more of her time hacking into systems and files to get information on the latest bounties. She readjusted herself so that she was laying down on the table in front of the couch in the lounge, she did not stop typing. Spike was lying on the couch, trying in vain to sleep, but with Ed clacking away on her Tomato rest was just not possible. So he then resigned himself to imagining a piece of chocolate cake that he had seen on T.V. in his mouth. And was failing, Last time I watch cooking shows when I'm hungry. His tasty reverie was then interrupted by a rumble and thunder for the hangar. Her and her damn motorcycle. A small smirk played on his face.

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Faye's POV*

She cruised down the streets of Tharsis City on her motorcycle, a nice new Kawasaki. Since they now spent a lot more time planet side when they went after bounties and she had had the cash, Faye had decided that it was time for a more normal mode of transportation, for when she wasn't doing bounty stuff. Not that she was giving up on her Redtail. They were staying at a Motel 6 since they were going to be planet side for a while as they tried to go after their latest bounty. Jet had asked her to go get some groceries, handed her the list and, kicked her out. She had previously explored this area incase they ended up in a chase with their bounty, so she knew her way around. As she turned the corner, she heard the sounds of gunshots through her helmet. She concentrated on the scene up ahead. There was a car from behind which five men were shooting at one man that was across the street taking cover behind what was left of a storefront window. The man behind the window popped up shot quickly and dove around the corner of the store. Three of the men went down with bullets in various places, the two remaining men opened fire on the brick corner of the building that the man was hiding behind. The man was Spike. And the guys with the car were Red Dragons, she could tell by their suits. Two months! Where the hell has he been! Well let's pick him up and see. There had been plenty of times when things seemed pretty desperate and looked like he wasn't going to come back, but never so much as that one time. This time she was gonna be in control, she certainly hadn't been in control the last time. I had hurt so much when he left. So she had just tried not to think about it. Secretly they hoped that he would just waltz back through the door and that things would be normal, but he hadn't. And suddenly, here he was on the same planet in the same city as she, when would she ever have another chance like this one? She smiled as a plan formed in her mind. There was an ally that ran around the length of the building that Spike was hiding behind. She took the upcoming right, then left, and then the last left. Bringing her up behind Spike.

Spike's POV*

He was preparing return fire, when he heard a roaring sound from behind him. He turned around prepared for more attackers, but stopped when a woman on a motorcycle slowed to a stop and yelled, "Get on!" he couldn't see her face because of her helmet. He got on and wrapped his right arm around her waist, and held his gun in his left hand. "Are you ready?" she said.

Faye's POV*

"Are you ready?" she asked him. He looked ahead and then back at her and nodded. Here we go. She sped out of the ally, and turned left heading back the way she had come. Spike started shooting at the men who were caught off guard, and screamed, "He's getting away follow them!" The men got in their car and were gaining on them in a couple of minutes. The man in the passenger side leaned out of his window and started shooting. Faye saw this and swerved to one side avoiding the gunfire. "Does this thing go any faster?" Spike yelled next to her head. She Suddenly accelerated causing Spike to jerk back and lose his grip. Oops, maybe I should have told him to hold on. She thought, amused by the indignant look on his face.



Spikes POV*

Jesus! I could have fallen off! He looked in to the rearview mirror and saw that they were rapidly pulling away from the car. "Shit!" he heard her say. And then he looked up. Shit! They were headed straight for a dead end.



Faye's POV*

She pulled around sharply, and narrowly avoided crashing into the wall. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going! Only one way out. She saw the triumphant looks on the faces of the men in the car. They though that they had her. "Shoot them before they shoot us." She said simply. Again he nodded. Eat my shorts!



Spike's POV

This woman is crazy. He heard the squeal of tires and then they were off shooting towards the car. Spike shot the passenger, but the man driving stuck his hand out the window and fired three times. The first two bullets missed, but the third went through the windshield to hit the woman in the left shoulder. The bike swerved erratically before she got it back under control. But he hadn't been watching the road and hit a building.



Faye's POV*



When the bullet shit her in the shoulder she would have screamed, but it hurt too much. She was losing control of the motorcycle so she tightened her grip on the handle. She gritted her teeth against the bolts of pain that shot through her arm. I got you now. After a few minutes of driving she pulled up to the front of the Motel 6, shut off her cycle, and walked to the nearest flight of stairs.



Spike's POV*

He watched her walk up the stairs holding her shoulder with her good hand, she didn't tell me not to come. He put his hands in his pockets, and followed her lazily up the stairs. She stopped at room 26, pulled he key out of her pocket, swiped it and opened the door. "Did you get the groceries?" he heard a gruff male voice asked.



Faye's POV*



He's following me, yes! She opened the door, "Did you get the groceries?" she heard Jet ask. He was around the corner of the closet, so he couldn't see Spike, and Spike couldn't see him.



Omniscient POV*

She stepped forward and said, "No but I did pick up something else." As she said this she reached behind her, grabbed Spike's shirt and, pulled him around the corner in front of her. Jet stood up looking surprise and leaned to one side to see, around Spike, Faye pulling off her helmet. Spike turned around too. He took a step back. "Where did you find him?" Jet asked. He hadn't noticed her shoulder yet. Spike saw Ed busily tapping away on her Tomato with the goggles on and Ein asleep on the floor next to the bed. "Down by where the Butcher shop used to be," she stressed the word used. "What do you mean 'used'?" "He was in a shootout with some guys." "Oh." And with that explained Jet turned to Spike, "So how ya been?" "Ok." They both turned around when they heard Faye gasp as she tried to take her coat off. "What the hell happened?" Jet exclaimed, as he saw her blood stained T-shirt. "A guy shot me." She said, making her way to her bed and sitting down.

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Since then things have been pretty normal, he thought. Sometimes his stomach still bothered him where Vicious had., but other than that things were pretty much like they had been before, pretty much.

He finally got to sleep.



NFA: Sorry if the flashback thing was confusing; I felt that it had to be done that way. Omniscient POV is everyone or an all-knowing point of view. Well, yay! It's done, now on to chapter three for me! Please read and review.